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The Weatherman Wants Your Smartphone Data: Creating Hyperlocal Weather Reports through Crowdsourcing

The weatherman has competition, and it’s from a phone app. WeatherSignal, an Android app developed by Dutch scientists, tells the weather by crowdsourcing temperature readings from the sensors that keep smartphone batteries from overheating. Since smartphones are everywhere, WeatherSignal might one day let meteorologists make hyperlocal weather reports without building weather stations on every roof.… Continue reading The Weatherman Wants Your Smartphone Data: Creating Hyperlocal Weather Reports through Crowdsourcing

Watch the Internet Happen, One Second at a Time

You’ve probably heard this before, but it doesn’t cease to amaze: 3 billion Google searches are performed each day and 204 million emails are sent per minute. Each day, 2.7 billion likes are sent on Facebook and 174 million messages are tweeted. Two new users join LinkedIn every second, 72 hours of video are uploaded… Continue reading Watch the Internet Happen, One Second at a Time

How to Get High on the New Facebook News Feed Using ‘Story Bumping’ and ‘Last Actor’ Signals

Has Facebook killed EdgeRank, its algorithm to determine which posts appear in your News Feed? Maybe in name internally, but Facebook still uses other algorithms to arrange stories in the News Feed. Yesterday Facebook introduced Story Bumping and Last Actor, and ways to display content from the user you interacted with most recently.   How To Take Advantage of Story… Continue reading How to Get High on the New Facebook News Feed Using ‘Story Bumping’ and ‘Last Actor’ Signals

For the First Time, Facebook Reveals News Feed Algorithms and Announces ‘Story Bumping’

Facebook is infamously difficult to use as a marketing platform for brands. Given the network’s secrecy around its News Feed algorithms, it’s been hard, if not impossible, for brands to determine best practices for reach their follower base. Today, for the first time, Facebook revealed some of the factors used to score posts in the… Continue reading For the First Time, Facebook Reveals News Feed Algorithms and Announces ‘Story Bumping’

DashBurst is Looking to Hire an Infographic Designer

Are you interested in creating information graphics that help thousands of people become more informed and successful online? DashBurst – a social media magazine, design agency, and technology startup – is looking to add a full-time infographic designer to its staff. DashBurst launched earlier in 2013 and is now one of the top 17,000 sites… Continue reading DashBurst is Looking to Hire an Infographic Designer

Obama Vetoes Apple Product Ban and Samsung Sees Its First Patent Win Stripped Away

In a shocking yet not-so-shocking move, President Obama on Saturday vetoed an International Trade Commission (ITC)’s patent ruling that would have banned the importation of some older Apple devices. In June Apple suffered its first loss in a patent case with Samsung when the ITC ruled patent violation and called for an import ban on… Continue reading Obama Vetoes Apple Product Ban and Samsung Sees Its First Patent Win Stripped Away

Why Women Aren’t Thrilled About Computer Science Careers [REPORT]

Last week we wrote about she++, an organization founded by two Stanford students that aims to encourage women to participate in computer science fields. The organization is becoming increasingly active, hosting conferences on the subject and screening their documentary worldwide. This makes the time ripe for answering this question: why aren’t women joining computer science-related fields at rates similar to men?